Liberals and homosexual activists are advancing their radical agenda
by attempting to torpedo President Donald Trump's executive order on
religious liberty that was recently leaked to the media. This is an
excellent executive order that will protect your First Amendment rights.

I urge you to sign the AFA petition NOW asking President Trump to protect religious freedom for all Americans.
I plan to personally deliver this petition with signatures during a
meeting with the Trump Administration. Help me take your voice to the
White House!

This is urgent! After the executive order was leaked, radical
activists demanded that the White House keep in place the policy
implemented by President Obama’s executive order. The Obama policy bans
federal contractors from funding if they refuse to change their
non-discrimination policies to include homosexuals and “transgender”
persons.

If Christians remain silent and do not let President Trump know
they stand with him on religious liberty, then the only voices he will
hear are those of radical homosexual activists.

. . . The religious freedom executive order under consideration by the Trump Administration:

Follows the long standing Religious Freedom Restoration Act
(RFRA) that states religious exercise "includes all aspects of religious
observance and practice."

Instructs all federal agencies, "to the greatest extent
practicable and permitted by law," to reasonably accommodate the
religion of federal employees, as required by Title VII of the Civil
Rights Act of 1964 and the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

Instructs the Departments of Health and Human Services,
Labor, and the Treasury to grant relief to the Little Sisters of the
Poor and others that are not exempt from the Obamacare contraception
mandate.

Instructs the Department of Health and Human Services to
ensure the federal government does not discriminate against the
religious beliefs of child-welfare providers such as foster care and
adoption services.

Instructs all federal agencies to provide protections and
exemptions consistent with the Civil Rights Act and Americans with
Disabilities Act to religious organizations that either contract with or
receive grants from the federal government.

Instructs the U.S. Treasury not to revoke the non-profit tax
status because a religious organization's ordinary religious speech
deals with politics, or because they speak or act on the belief that
marriage is the union of husband and wife, that sex is based on
immutable biology, or that life begins at conception.

I'm not even going to refute these bullets one at a time because they can all be handled with a question, which unfortunately, has not been asked enough.

Mike Huckabee’s Transphobic ‘Joke’ Slammed By Stars, Allies - A vile positive to the election of Trump is how certain members of the religious right are discarding their masks of piety and showing their true bigoted faces. Because mocking someone for crying about the Holocaust AND making fun of a transgender murder victim at the same time takes a special kind of nasty hate.

Editor's note - And this isn't Huckabee's first time at the "rodeo of homophobia." The article above isn't just about a simple joke. Mike Huckabee has a long history of attacking lgbts and reducing our lives to punchlines and illusions about sex all in the name of "his faith." He simply does not like lgbts, period:

According to the anti-lgbt hate group the Family Research Council, the two and half weeks with Trump in power have been wonderful. And it would be even more wonderful if he would repeal The Johnson Amendment, thereby allowing churches to publicly endorse or oppose political candidates without losing tax exempt status. The following is from FRC president Tony Perkins:

President Trump didn't waste any time proving his critics wrong.
People who doubted whether the Republican would make good on his
promises learned pretty quickly that there's nothing empty about this
president's word. From the unborn to immigration, the new White House
has been working its way through a long list of priorities -- which, we
know from last week's National Prayer Breakfast, includes the Johnson
Amendment. From almost the beginning of his candidacy, Trump has
highlighted this 1954 law as one of the worst abusers of free speech in
America.

And plenty of conservatives agree. After eight years of the Obama IRS
breathing down the necks of nonprofits and churches, threatening to
take away their tax exempt status, the Johnson Amendment has become just
another way for liberals to crackdown on pastors' ability to speak
openly about political issues and candidates. That changes now, say
conservatives like Senator James Lankford (R-Okla.), House Majority Whip
Steve Scalise (R-La.), and Rep. Jody Hice (R-Ga.), who together
introduced the Free Speech Fairness Act to stop the government from
muting pastors who apply God's laws to today's debates. They, like
President Trump, think it's time to put an end to this culture of
intimidation -- especially since that wasn't the purpose of the measure
to begin with! In a joint op-ed for the Washington Post, the trio talks about their new bill and what it would mean for the pulpits of America.

"Specifically, our legislation would ensure that all 501(c)(3)
organizations, including nonprofits, charities, and houses of worship
are legally able to make comments about a political issue within the
scope of their normal activities. An environmental nonprofit that sends
out an e-newsletter educating its readers about the climate positions of
candidates wouldn't have to fear an audit. A church employee who
distributes election voter guides (for which her church did not incur
any cost for distribution) could not be punished by the IRS."

As I said on CNN over the weekend, this has nothing to do with money
being expended on political campaigns. And it certainly doesn't mean
that churches will become the new arm of the Republican Party -- or
either party. As Lankford, Scalise, and Hice pointed out, "Every
American should be able to speak freely about their conscience and
convictions -- no matter what their job is."

The truth of the matter is Americans are able to speak freely about their conscience and convictions. That is not the point. The point is should certain organizations be allowed to endorse or oppose political candidates without losing their nonprofit status? And let's not play games here. The organizations in question are in fact churches. Perkins can dodge all he likes, but we are in fact talking about churches, which is a main source of a lot of FRC's power and influence. Perkins seeks to distract people with jingoistic or religious words like "freedom," "conscience," and "convictions" because he has yet to make a concise defense on why should churches meddle deep into politics without losing their tax-exempt status.

And my guess is that Perkins doesn't have one. Giving churches unfettered access to political power is a dangerous game to play, but it only underscores what I have said about the religious right's relationship with Trump. They don't care to act as his moral conscience. They are only acting as his alibi so that he gives them what they want.

About Me

Alvin McEwen is 46-year-old African-American gay man who resides in Columbia, SC.
McEwen's blog, Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters, and writings have been mentioned by Americablog.com, Goodasyou.org, People for the American Way, PageOneQ.com, The Washington Post, Raw Story, The Advocate, Media Matters for America, Crooksandliars.com, Thinkprogress.org, Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish, Melissa Harris-Perry, The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell, Newsweek, The Daily Beast, The Washington Blade, and Foxnews.com.
In addition, he is also a past contributor to Pam's House Blend,Justice For All, LGBTQ Nation, and Alternet.org. He is a present contributor to the Daily Kos and the Huffington Post,
He is the 2007 recipient of the Harriet Daniels Hancock Volunteer of the Year Award and the 2010 recipient of the Order of the Pink Palmetto from the SC Pride Movement as well as the 2009 recipient of the Audre Lorde/James Baldwin Civil Rights Activist Award from SC Black Pride. In addition, he is a three-time nominee of the Ed Madden Media Advocacy Award from SC Pride.